Casa Rivas in Brighton and Hove

The food was over-salted, to the extent that 2 of us (out of a group of 5) struggled to finish our food. Additionally, something in the kitchen was burning and the restaurant filled with smoke. Service was also slow and patchy. Very surprised by previous reviews.

We got sat right in front of the pizza oven which caused my partner to overheat and panic. When we asked to move, we had to wait for a while. When we finally got sat at a table we ordered drinks and 2 pizzas one of the pizzas being gluten free. It took a very long time ,around half an hour, to bring us our drinks which was just tap water. When we finally got our pizzas my partner who had order the GF pizza had a severely undercooked base and the toppings were a complete joke. The pizza was a pool of tomato sauce and 3 strings of cheese. when we brought up the problem to one of the servers she took the pizza back and asked the chef to add more cheese but brought it back and explained that the pizza oven could not handle the additional cheese. she then brought back a dollop of melted cheese in a bowl and said this is they best that they could do. My partner then requested a completely new pizza because the pizza was completely inedible. it then took them a further 40 minutes to replace the pizza and by that time my own pizza was stone cold and the entire experience was just awful. Finally, they had the nerve to put on a £5 service charge when we got the bill in total we left £50 poorer, unsatisfied and on the verge of heatstroke. DO NOT RECOMMEND!!

Excellent food & friendly service. Reasonable prices too. I had the pasta (perfectly cooked) with duck ragu; a generous portion of robustly flavoured food. My wife had sea bream which she pronounced to be delicious though paired with a heavily flavoured Jerusalem artichoke & tomato sauce which perhaps drowned out the delicacy of the fish. We both enjoyed our choice of wine. The house Cin Cin red is very good. Decent espresso she says

Vicky was very friendly and helpful

One of the best Italians ever, my pasta was wonderful and I would highly recommend this place, we had an amazing time tonight, thank you and 🍷👍